Hello and welcome to iGarden. Anyone who knows me will know that I am 'The Compulsive Gardener' - I love everything about gardening.
Allow me to share some of my enthusiasm and interests in gardening with a focus on the plants I know best and those that do especially well in my own Sydney garden.
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Spring annuals were of the first types of plants I was ever aware of as a child in the 1960s. In those days, most gardeners seemed to grow them and I recall ours being raised from seed in flat wooden boxes kept on the corrugated iron platform covering our firewood pile. The boxes were covered with pieces of masonite and I remember my father carefully lifting these lids up every evening when he came home from work to inspect whether the seedlings had come up. Our spring garden seemed to be ful ... Read On »
See the full list of what's flowering in my garden this month.
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For me, August is one of the busiest months of the gardening year. Read More »
Flowering annuals, bulbs and vegetables need to be kept well watered and fed with soluble fertiliser to keep them growing well. If you grow Fuchsia, you can start to feed these with a nitrogen-rich soluble fertiliser now too, and continue this every fortnight until October, when a flower-promoting food can be begun.
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